Speed Limits

[Fala]

I hit a deer at 60 on a gravel road.



The only damage was the loss of the deer whistles...

"Well I've traveled the whole world over, ten thousand miles and more...

And a deer whistlin' at cars on a highway I ain't never seen before."



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_4f7mu6GSA

 

[Hard_Rom]

Speeding on highways is stupid (yes, I have done it). So you gain 10-20 miles more distance in an hour. Big deal. Your gas mileage plummets. Cars are built to be most efficient at 55 mph. If you must speed, go whole hog. Double the speed limit and at least make up a decent amount of time.

Eventually we will have driverless cars everywhere. Governments will just mandate speed governors.

Buddy got a chance to drive a top of the line Mercedes E-class imported from Germany from Niagara Falls to Kitchener. Had to touch the steering wheel 5 times the whole way.

 

[jaF0]

If you must speed, go whole hog. Double the speed limit ...

I did that ... once.

Had an old '84 Gran Fury sitting in a garage for a few years. Wasn't even sure it would still run. Tried it out one day and it started. Took it out on a newer straight stretch of Interstate in a city about 3AM. Nobody on the road since it was so new.

Hit 110 MPH on the speedometer before I got to wondering why it hadn't exploded yet and decided to slow down.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Fastest I have ever gone is an indicated 150mph. In a done up Dodge Lil' red Express truck and on a Kawi 1100 LTD. Not comfortable doing over 200K on a bike. Shit happens too fast at that speed. 160-180 (100mph+) I can do comfortably in a straight line. Did the 500 or so miles to past Sudbury at 100mph once. Did same trip with slow buddy in 10 hours. My butt hurt real bad after 10 hours in the saddle. 5 hours was a snap. Would loved to have kept going and done 1000 miles in a short day. Probably pushing my luck cannonballing at that speed. Accident and police wise.

My first time ever on a bike I was doing an indicated 180 klicks within an hour. Bit of a speed demon. But 400 series highways are so boring on a bike!

 

[Conager]

Speeding on highways is stupid (yes, I have done it). So you gain 10-20 miles more distance in an hour. Big deal. Your gas mileage plummets. Cars are built to be most efficient at 55 mph. If you must speed, go whole hog. Double the speed limit and at least make up a decent amount of time.

Eventually we will have driverless cars everywhere. Governments will just mandate speed governors.

Buddy got a chance to drive a top of the line Mercedes E-class imported from Germany from Niagara Falls to Kitchener. Had to touch the steering wheel 5 times the whole way.

No, you won't get there significantly sooner, but the idea that cars are optimized for 55mph is false. Depends a number of factors. 55 is n9t fast enough for huge differences in aerodynamics.

 

[Hard_Rom]

No, you won't get there significantly sooner, but the idea that cars are optimized for 55mph is false. Depends a number of factors. 55 is n9t fast enough for huge differences in aerodynamics.

Carburation or fuel injection with valve timing has 55 as the most efficient gas mileage.

The Energy Saving Trust says that the most efficient speed you can travel in a car in terms of achieving the best fuel economy is 55-65mph. Any faster, though, and the fuel efficiency decreases rapidly. For example, driving at 85mph uses 40% more fuel than at 70mph (oh, and it's illegal too).

also
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/fuel-efficiency/fuel-economy/question477.htm

It takes 4x the horsepower to go twice as fast. Cars are not long enough to optimize aerodynamics. Which is why drafting in NASCAR works so well. Front car goes faster as well as trailing car.

Anyone driving a huge pick up truck with the aerodynamics of a brick and a huge 8 cylinder engine should not be worrying about mileage. Not why you bought it in the first place. High boxy SUV type vehicles with 6 cyl not far off.

Eventually fossil fuels will be reserved for military applications only. We will all be driving electric self driving smart cars. That should take a bit out of highway fatalities.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

So, the number can be 65...





... You go 65 on I-70 in Missourah and you're going to create extreme road rage and maybe get yourself shot at. You'd better be at 75, and even then, you're getting the one-finger salute.

 

[domroger]

Don't city people know they're supposed to indicate before changing lanes?

That is a world wide problem .

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

*chuckle*


My brother-in-law, another country boy, used to drive my sister crazy. He used his turn signals religiously until he hit the city. When she chided him his retort was, there's too much going on here and I forget it.

 

[Porkwarrior]

Speed limits are arbitrary horseshit whose only purpose is to fill unionized gov't workers quotas.

If you want to dawdle, fine, just keep to the right.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Speed limits are arbitrary horseshit whose only purpose is to fill unionized gov't workers quotas.

If you want to dawdle, fine, just keep to the right.

Not me.



I pay my taxes. They entitle me to the whole fawking thing!

I'm that guy in the 4X4 with the gun rack and rifle on display doing 10mph below the limit in the left lane with his left turn signal on ... PERIOD!

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Military are not the only people who use working vehicles! A small light car would struggle to do many of the asks agricultural and small holding cars are asked to do, or even leisure towing.

As a truck owner, I am besieged by friends, co-workers and even casual acquaintances for the use of my truck when moving day comes. It seems beer is cheaper than U-Haul no matter how much I try to consume...



And then they pay me gas money, so I pretty much break even, even when I break the favorite lamp.

 

[Porkwarrior]

That's not quite true either.

Impact survival rates at different speeds are significant. Urban/ residential area speed limits are very AAndvisable for example.

Increasingly it seems to me we are people who cannot set our own boundaries sensibly. ( look for example at fora behaviour ).

I did find it difficult to stick to American speed limits I admit .

The majority of accidents here happen at 80km/h here or lower, 35mph or somesuch. And that's on the highways. Autoroutes/highways/interstate should be whatever is "safe is prudent"

 

[PleasePeesMe]

The secret

is learning to drive properly.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Most accidents occur right before you arrive home.

For example, my daughter, earlier this year, fell asleep and totaled her car six-tenths of a mile away from home. She was probably doing 30mph or less since she only traveled about a tenth of a mile before she dropped off into a rocky ravine.

 

[water505]

Eventually fossil fuels will be reserved for military applications only. We will all be driving electric self driving smart cars. That should take a bit out of highway fatalities.

And how is the electricity generated to power these ""green" cars?

Fossil fuels.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

And how is the electricity generated to power these ""green" cars?

Fossil fuels.

Oh noes!

It's going to either be windmills or people plugged into the Matrix...

 

[oggbashan]

And how is the electricity generated to power these ""green" cars?

Fossil fuels.

On one day recently in the UK more than 50% of electricity was generated by renewable energy sources.

Many houses near me have rooftop solar panels which supply the surplus to the National Grid. It has been suggested that electric powered cars could be connected to those solar panels whenever they are stationary at home, and the car's battery pack could be used to supply electricity after dark.

The idea is that you charge your car during daylight hours, use the car's battery pack for house lighting etc at night, but disconnect the car if you intend to be driving after dark or early in the morning.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[BotanyBoy]

Eventually we will have driverless cars everywhere. Governments will just mandate speed governors.

Taking individual freedom away in favor of government control, it's what our little Canadian Nationalist Rom dreams of.

Speed limits are arbitrary horseshit whose only purpose is to fill unionized gov't workers quotas.

If you want to dawdle, fine, just keep to the right.

Pretty much....I paid my taxes and I occasionally pay my fines but I drive pretty much however the fuck I want.

If I'm in the beast (Dawj 3500 Cumminz) I like cruising about 60-70....that's just a comfy speed to cruise a tank like that.

My old Z had a tall ass 5th and final drive, she Loved 90.....all day. Drop it into 4th and she'd pull right on up to 130 like nothing. Things didn't get harry in that car until you were knocking a 150.

My EVO is way more high strung, likes cursing at 60 and feels pushed at 70 even but the acceleration is idiotic on that thing. I'll go toe to toe with a GSXR 1000 from 60 roll and pull them 2-3 cars from a dig.

Carburation or fuel injection with valve timing has 55 as the most efficient gas mileage.

Not mine....LOL

Because stand alone engine management systems I rewrote my own fuel maps.

fossil fuels will be reserved for military applications only. We will all be driving electric self driving smart cars. That should take a bit out of highway fatalities.

There it is again, always pining and pushing for that totalitarian government control.

Good little Nationalist you.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Buddy got a chance to drive a top of the line Mercedes E-class imported from Germany from Niagara Falls to Kitchener. Had to touch the steering wheel 5 times the whole way.

Hope you meant the gas peddle -- or that he was a passenger.

 

[Conager]

Hope you meant the gas peddle -- or that he was a passenger.

several self-driving cars are already available. They just don't call them that for liability reasons but basically you don't have to actually drive.

Tesla, mercedes, BMW, Volvo, Infinity, Farraday all have "driver assist" modes on their high-end cars.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

several self-driving cars are already available. They just don't call them that for liability reasons but basically you don't have to actually drive.

Tesla, mercedes, BMW, Volvo, Infinity, Farraday all have "driver assist" modes on their high-end cars.

Right, I knew you would get an alert if you were "lane wandering," but I did not realize they were self-correcting. Really?